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Willem van Mieris (1662-1747) - Children’s Games (1702)
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Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 63.8 x 96.5 cm. Source: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service.... I have changed the light, colors and contrast of the original photo.
Horace Vernet (1789-1863) - The Quarry (1823)
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Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 130.2 x 190.8 cm. Source: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service.... I have changed the light and contrast of the original photo.
Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) - Les Charmes de la vie
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Materials: Oil on mahogany panel. Dimensions: 46.2 x 68.3 cm. Source: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service.... I have changed the light and contrast of the original photo.
Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 72.5 x 90.4 cm. Source: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service.... I have changed the light, contrast and colors of the original photo.
Detail from "A Dance to the Music of Time", by Nicholas Poussin. Wallace Collection, London.
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The Lacemaker 1662 by Caspar Netscher (1639-1684).
The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "East Galleries II. Here the world of seventeenth-century Holland is explored through small-scale domestic and genre scenes including masterpieces by Gerard ter Borch, Gabriel Metsu and Jan Steen."
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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Fionnuala O'Donnell, Events Officer at the Wallace Collection in the Oval Drawing Room in 2014. From April 2015 Fionnuala became Head of Corporate Membership and Events, and was appointed Head of Commercial from July 2019.
The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Oval Drawing Room. The Oval Drawing Room is an intimate setting for the rococo paintings of Boucher and Fragonard. The furniture represents the transition between rococo and neo-classical which can be seen in the form and decoration of Riesener’s stunning roll-top desk."
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674) - The Adoration of the Shepherds
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "East Galleries II. Here the world of seventeenth-century Holland is explored through small-scale domestic and genre scenes including masterpieces by Gerard ter Borch, Gabriel Metsu and Jan Steen."
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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Detail from "A Merry Company at Table", by Hendrick Gerritz Pot. Wallace Collection, London.
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Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 89.6 x 76.7 cm. Inscriptions: Signature: 'JVRuisdael', the 'JVR' in monogram. Nr.: P247. Source: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/... P.S. I have changed the light, contrast and colors of the original photo.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Study. The study is a feminine, comfortable, boudoir-like room celebrating Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. There are more pieces of her furniture in here than in any other room in the world."
The small painting above the cabinet on the left is "The Souvenir" c.1776 - c.1778, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806), France. View in detail in original size.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Boudoir.
The Boudoir is hung with pictures by Greuze and Reynolds, painters who gave expression to the eighteenth century cult of Sensibilité in France and England. The furniture includes a variety of writing-desks and tables appropriate for a lady’s boudoir."
Lower row, left of centre, is the painting "The Strawberry Girl" 1772-1773 by Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792), England. Bottom right is "The Broken Mirror" c.1762-1762 by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805), France. View detail in original size.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Back State Room. This room is a tribute to the patronage of King Louis XV (1715-74) and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour. It displays some of the greatest examples in the Wallace Collection of rococo art, which flourished under their patronage."
The painting right of centre is "The Dead Wolf" 1721 by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686 - 1755), France
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
The Wallace Collection website.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Large Drawing Room. In Sir Richard Wallace's lifetime, the Large Drawing Room was then, as now, dominated by monumental Boulle furniture, including the enormous Londonderry Bookcase and large Dutch paintings".
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
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The exquisite Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (10 mins. from Bond Street Tube Station).
The Wallace Collection website.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "East Galleries I. Displayed here are paintings by Rembrandt and his followers, from the painter's early years in Leiden to his later years in Amsterdam, including Rembrandts moving portrait of his son Titus." For detail view original size.
The painting above the desk is "Self-Portrait in a Black Cap" 1637 by Rembrandt (1606 - 1669). The large painting on the right is "The Listening Housewife (The Eavesdropper)" 1656, by Nicolas Maes (1634 - 1693), Netherlands.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Dining Room
The room is furnished with still-life paintings depicting fruit and game. It also contains portraits by Houdon and Nattier of four aristocratic French women of the ancient régime, two of whom were victims of the Terror of the French Revolution."
The painting on the left wall is "Perseus and Andromeda", by Titian (1485 - 1576), Italy. Probably painted 1554-1556, The large painting on the right wall is "The Adoration of the Shepherds" c. 1665 - c. 1670 by Bartolomé-Esteban Murillo (1617 - 1682), Spain.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "West Gallery I. The Wallace Collection owns and an outstanding collection of Venetian views by Antonio Canaletto and Francesco Guardi. Some of Canaletto’s paintings were acquired by the 1st Marquess of Hertford and mark the beginning of art collecting in the family."
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "West Room.
The room is hung with paintings reflecting the Italian experiences of French eighteenth-century artists and with Italian works of a type fashionable with contemporary collectors in France."
The central painting in this photo is by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) of Mrs Mary Robinson (Perdita), 1781. The chest of drawers is French c. 1765, by René Dubois (1737-1798).
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "East Galleries II. Here the world of seventeenth-century Holland is explored through small-scale domestic and genre scenes including masterpieces by Gerard ter Borch, Gabriel Metsu and Jan Steen."
The large painting top centre is "Celebrating the Birth" 1664 by Jan Steen (1626 - 1679), Netherlands. Below it, left of centre is "The Harpsichord Lesson" 1660-1669 by Jan Steen (1626 - 1679), Netherlands. For detail view original size.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Front State Room. When Hertford House was the home of Sir Richard and Lady Wallace important visitors would be received in the Front State Room. This room was refurbished in 1994 to return it as closely as possible to its appearance in the Wallaces’ time."
The painting upper right is of Lady Elizabeth Seymour-Conway 1781 by Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792), England. The small painting below it is "Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante" 1803, after Vigée Le Brun, by Henry Bone (1755 - 1834), England. View detail in original size.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Front State Room. When Hertford House was the home of Sir Richard and Lady Wallace important visitors would be received in the Front State Room. This room was refurbished in 1994 to return it as closely as possible to its appearance in the Wallaces’ time."
The painting to the left of the door is of Queen Victoria 1838 by Thomas Sully (1783 - 1872), London. Right of the door is George IV as Prince of Wales 1792 by John Hoppner (1758 - 1810), England. View detail in original size.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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Inv. No. HJRK S VIII
Jousting Armour (Stechzeug) (1483 - 1494)
by Kaspar Rieder
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Neue Burg
Kaspar Rieder worked in Mühlau near Innsbruck. He is recorded from 1452 when he made an armour for Archduke Sigismund of Tyrol. From 1467 to 1492 he was Harnischmeister to the Archduke. He made armour for the King of Naples in 1472; for Burkhart von Knörigen and Rudolf Horb in 1473, in co-operation with Hans Veterlein; for Sigmund von Welsperg in 1478; and for the Emperor Maximilian I in 1496. He is last recorded in 1498.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Study. The study is a feminine, comfortable, boudoir-like room celebrating Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. There are more pieces of her furniture in here than in any other room in the world."
The painting on the far wall, extreme right is "Sophie Arnould" c.1773, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805), France.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Large Drawing Room. In Sir Richard Wallace's lifetime, the Large Drawing Room was then, as now, dominated by monumental Boulle furniture, including the enormous Londonderry Bookcase and large Dutch paintings". The painting top right, of which only a small part is seen in this photo, is "Jochem van Aras with his Wife and Daughter" 1654 by Bartolomeus van der Helst (1613 - 1670), Netherlands.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might possibly be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "East Galleries II. Here the world of seventeenth-century Holland is explored through small-scale domestic and genre scenes including masterpieces by Gerard ter Borch, Gabriel Metsu and Jan Steen."
The seated woman in red is "The Lacemaker" 1662 by Caspar Netscher (1639-1684). The large picture to its right is "The Avenue at Meerdervoort" painted in the early 1650s by
Aelbert Cuyp (1620 - 1691), Netherlands. Between them is "A Lady reading a Letter" c. 1665 by Gerard ter Borch (1617 - 1681), Netherlands.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Dining Room.
The room is furnished with still-life paintings depicting fruit and game. It also contains portraits by Houdon and Nattier of four aristocratic French women of the ancient régime, two of whom were victims of the Terror of the French Revolution."
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
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Sèvres Porcelain Collection.
The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Back State Room. This room is a tribute to the patronage of King Louis XV (1715-74) and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour. It displays some of the greatest examples in the Wallace Collection of rococo art, which flourished under their patronage."
The painting (partly seen) is of Louis XV c. 1761-1771, from the Studio of Louis-Michel van Loo (1707 - 1771).
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
The European Armoury II. The Wallace Collection website.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "East Galleries I. Displayed here are paintings by Rembrandt and his followers, from the painter's early years in Leiden to his later years in Amsterdam, including Rembrandts moving portrait of his son Titus."
The portrait above the chest of drawers is by Rembrandt (1606 - 1669) entitled "Titus, the Artist's Son" painted c. 1657.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Study. The study is a feminine, comfortable, boudoir-like room celebrating Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. There are more pieces of her furniture in here than in any other room in the world."
The painting on the far wall, extreme right is "Sophie Arnould" c.1773, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805), France. View in detail in original size.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "Billiard Room.
The Billiard Room is a showcase for some of the best furniture by André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), and sets the scene for the decorative arts under Louis XIV."
The painting on the left wall (half seen) is "Perseus and Andromeda" 1723 by François Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), France. The painting on the far right is "Rendez-vous de chasse" c. 1717-1718 by Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721), France.
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
Sony NEX-5 with 16mm f/2.8 and VCL-ECU1 ultra wide adapter
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
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The Wallace Collection is in Hertford House, on the north side of Manchester Square, London, a short walk north from Oxford Street (Bond Street Tube Station).
From the Wallace Collection website: "East Galleries II. Here the world of seventeenth-century Holland is explored through small-scale domestic and genre scenes including masterpieces by Gerard ter Borch, Gabriel Metsu and Jan Steen."
From Wikipedia: "The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries."
"It was established in 1897 from the private collection mainly created by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), who left it and the house to his illegitimate son Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890), whose widow bequeathed the entire collection to the nation. The museum opened to the public in 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, and remains there, housed in its entirety, to this day. A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions. Admission is free."
The Wallace Collection's Guide to Galleries.
Wikipedia has a listing of items in the collection, with illustrations.
Sony NEX-5 with 16mm f/2.8 and VCL-ECU1 ultra wide adapter
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...
This bascinet looks very similar to the one kept in the Wallace Collection in London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=dir...
We might be dealing here with a fake, or a very similar, less finished example.
More information can be found on the website of the Musée lorrain: www.musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/en/collections/les--uvres-maje...